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    The New Labour Party

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    Political parties play a tremendous role in formulating policy and distribution of goods and services. These parties have many important roles like educating voters about issues, recruiting candidates, and developing economic and political ideas. Two different but similar political parties are Conservative and New Labour. The Conservative party was led by Margaret Thatcher from 1975 to 1990. Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990. Her policies came to be known as Thatcherism. Thatcherism is frugal, entrepreneurial, promotes self-reliance/responsibility, and deals with family economics. The New Labour party was led by Tony Blair from 1994 to 207. Tony Blair was the prime minister of the United…

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    Labour Party In Australia

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    Australian Labor Party is the oldest political organization in the political history of Australia, since it was formed in the 1890s and it had a representative in the first federal government that was elected in 1901. The major purpose of its formation was the early trade unions that existed by that period, and since then, it has maintained a close relationship with the trade unions in Australia. The party’s national platform provides the supporters and members with a clear outline of labor’s…

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    According to the Labour Party Manifesto, in order for the country to remain strong the British people need to feels secure in the strength of the borders and the communities around them. The Labour Party does not want to cut Britain off from the rest of the world, as people coming to Britain benefit the economy, but they do want to regulate and manage the system of immigration. Low skilled migration has been increasingly high and must be brought down to benefit the economy. The Labour Party…

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    Since Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party he has expressed very socialist views on economic, social and defence policies. Socialism is a form of society in which the government owns or controls major industries. Marxist theory says socialism is the transitional stage between capitalism and communism. It is Jeremy Corbyn’s intent to abandon new labour and return to more traditional socialist values. Labour abandoned their tradition socialist ideologies in the early 90’s under the…

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    the following part of this article, Marsland analyzes the reforms that were made the NHS between 1979-1997. Although the need for reform was not immediately attended to, it did eventually come. Out of a cautious effort to save the NHS but still preserve the welfare state arose The National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 which introduced competition and the role of the consumer into the healthcare system by decentralizing management and bringing it to local levels (Marsland, 2005,…

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    In the year of 1984 in New Zealand, there was a new elected government (labour party) which started to follow the neo-liberal trend including taking away free higher education, the national party when elected in only increased and semented this change. Jobs were now diversifying so there was now a demand for more specialised roles. This is partly why the competition started increasing and we started to see a gap in the economy and increasing gaps between the rich and poor. Because whoever could…

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    Labour Reforms

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    Between 1945 and 1952, the Labour Government were faced with many problems, Britain had lost a quarter of its wealth and there was a shortage of raw materials. To help meet the needs of people, Labour introduced new reforms which made up the Welfare State. These reforms were introduced to abolish the 'Five Giants' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. The Labour Government were partially effective in meeting the needs of the people. Poverty was a major issue in Britain which…

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    The Liberal Party originated in the reformist opposition groups that emerged in the mid-19th century in what are now the provinces of Quebec and Ontario “Rouges” (Reds) in the former and Clear Grits in the latter. The looseness and instability of all party formations at the time were especially persistent on what came to be called the Liberal side. Both before and after the 1867 creation of the Canadian federation, the Conservatives under Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister,…

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    at this remove cannot now be ascertained. However, the figure remained in production until 1938. If one contrasts Fenton’s thuggish looking Irishman with Vyse’s wholesome looking Cinneraria Boy (Fig.49), and one questions Doulton’s incentive for commissioning a design, which one supposes is meant to represent a labouring navvy. Nell Vyse In 1928, Alfred Mond (1868-1930), a Conservative MP, along with Ben Turner (1863-1942) the General Secretary of the Trades Union Council, together organised…

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    “Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote,” by Dawn Langan Teele, outlines the path to women’s inclusion in voting. The reading conveys how the struggle, in which the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies formed a coalition with the Labour Party, eventually lead to women’s suffrage. By doing this, suffragists allowed women’s suffrage to be included in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. This path was not easy as it took years of hard work,…

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